China makes further military threats over islands – will this ever end?

The military forces of China reiterated the country’s previous warnings on Tuesday, stating that it “reserves the right” to take action on Japan should it continue to threaten the sovereignty of the Diaoyu Islands with its plans of “purchasing” the islands. The two China Marine Surveillance (CMS) ships that arrived in the disputed area’s waters yesterday still remain, where the Beijing government says they will continue their surveillance of the islets. Japan has given no intention of bowing out of their purchase of the Senkaku Islands, causing China to further their displays of aggression, and dashing the hopes of any peaceful resolution in the near future.

The central Japanese government formally announced their purchase on Tuesday of the uninhabited islands from the Kurihara family, the private Japanese owners, for 2.05 billion yen (approx. $26 million). Shinsuke Sugiyama, of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, then arrived in Beijing with the intentions of holding urgent talks in order to prevent any misunderstandings. Chinese media is reporting that this is all for show, and Tokyo has shown no sincerity in trying to find a resolution. Seeing as how China claims the Japanese purchase of the islands is “illegal” and refuses to accept the deeds of the private owners, it doesn’t seem like there can be much of a solution, on either side.

Yuhei Sato, the governor of Fukushima Prefecture, was set to have a meeting with China’s Civil Aviation Administration about resuming flights between Shanghai and Fukushima, but it was called off at the last minute. Now, four out of seven of China’s military regions, Nanjing, Jinan, Chengdu, and Guangzhou, are holding large-scale People’s Liberation Army (PLA) exercises that many observers believe are meant to be displays of power towards Japan. Beijing strategy expert Hu Siyuan says the naval, air, and land forces are all prepared to defend China’s Diaoyu Islands, and are not concerned about having a confrontation with Japan.

Are these uninhabited rocks really worth it?

China’s government-run news agency, the Global Times, has been eager to promote the message that Japan needs to be taught a lesson (preferably by China, one can assume). A published editorial wrote that it’s time for China to end the illusion of friendly ties with Japan. Tokyo’s purchase agreement has brought an end to any diplomatic relations that were established in the 1970s. The Global Times continues that Chinese anger has now been awakened, and the only thing left to do is prepare for further deterioration of bilateral ties.

So this all begs the question, how can this realistically end peacefully, with both sides happy? It’s obvious China is just eager for any provocation to release its pent-up aggressions towards Japan. What is more frustrating is China’s repeated statements of “not accepting” Japan’s claims, or certain Japanese actions are “illegal,” and therefore warrant military aggression. It was the same thing with the Hong Kong activists that landed on the disputed islands a few weeks ago; China did not “recognize” Japan’s arrest for immigration violations, and as a result it was “illegal detainment.” Japan’s claims over the territory are just as strong as China’s, and this purchasing of them is just a way to strengthen their plans of nationalization. Japan is going to refuse accepting China’s claims just as China does, but they aren’t eager to start a military conflict.

If both sides are just going to “ignore” or “refuse to accept” what the other says, then there’s really nowhere to go. It’s completely pointless. I mentioned the same view-point when it came to the island dispute between Japan and South Korea, but it’s really just time to blow these rocks up and not let anyone have them.

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Zafar

Just sell 10% of the islands to Americans, 10% of indians, 10% to britons… game over.. check mate china…enough of this already…. claiming the whole sea…. claiming Taiwan after invading tibet, Manchuria and Xinjiang…enough already…

disqusdamnuserid

I hope you’re not teaching English in Japan. Learn to write proper English, hommes!

http://www.facebook.com/bob.w.knight Bob William Knight

goof

HoangNguyen

I found that if I made mistake in Eng grammar when communicated with the American, English or Australian they would never criticize my Eng. However, I would have got immediately some “lessons” from an Asian or from a people that came from a former East Euro countries. A non English speaking will always try to prove he/she is better in Eng. Very funny.

disqusdamnuserid

one day you’ll find out just how ‘kind” whites are….you’ll see.

Fruits

What are you babbling about?

http://twitter.com/kurnialim Kurnia Lim

I give u a checkmate, China should ally with Russia, India, Korea, and other moslem countries, and beat all the white ass and allies, that’s check mate

bombkiller007

China is already allied with Russia, Iran, Pakistan, and some Central Asian countries. It is the new Axis of our time called the Shanghai Cooperative Organization. They hold military drills together in anticipation of conflict against other nations.

disqusdamnuserid

oh, pa.leeez. shut it.

Poorchina

I don’t know why people all over the world hate China, even communist countries hate China also.

http://www.facebook.com/kung.tufo Kung Tofu Tufo

Becuase they sells fetus capsule,melamine on milk, mercury in toys, just to earn a living. While their communist government is boasting and manipulating their economy and currency just to make them number 2 in the world. So shame!

Turbo

fetus capsule?? what do you mean? O_o

HoangNguyen

Rich CNese people believe that taking a capsule that made from human fetus will keep them healthier and younger, That how fetus capsules are sold in CN.

OCS

Every single person in this planet except mainland Chinese would like to see China fall. You are the only country on this planet that would eat and drink filthy and unearthly stuff… You drive nice cars, gold watches and rings…but look at your homes… I don’t really know if Chinese understand the meaning of the word “hygiene”. Yuck!

Newbie

@disqusdamnuserid:disqus @7477116b17fcbc58a1ed13609cd530d0:disqus @e0cbc3f1eb0dc5ea11780c176725e7bf:disqus
Never mind. We still understand what Zafar meant. Even American still make mistake in English.

Rahul_the_Waffle

Well, if you don’t recognize that Japan has sovereignty over these islands, then you can hardly recognize any “immigration violations.” Goddamnit, the author should really get a brain.

In other news, blowing up the islands is totally nonsensical and would only trigger Japanese/Chinese/Taiwanese outrage even more. It seems like a very Japanese thing to do should they lose the islands though, that is, “If I can’t have it neither can you.”

Zhuubaajie

Everybody loves a profit.

Economic pressures are a lot cheaper than military ones. The Yen is hugely set up for a big fall already (currently at 77.8 Yen per Dollar). All it needs is that little push. Have selected hedge fund managers (Chinese and American) work the right combinations on currencies and shorting the Japanese companies involved, and there can be substantial gains from that boycott of Japanese goods by the 1.34 billion Chinese.

Fruits

I realised that Japan has been very agressive recently, making headlines so often on territorial disputes with Russian, South Korea, North Korea, China, Taiwan… Practically with everyone in the neighbourhood!

Heh

Ahhhh… your logic makes no sense. So Russia, South Korea, North Korea, and China DOESNT? lol All of the countries you named have huge amount of territorial disputes to almost all of their neighboring countries. Especially Russian and China.
Matter a fact, South and North Korean is in a war. lol. That’s worse then Territorial dispute!
“Japan has been very aggressive”? How many of the countries you named have nukes? and actually KILLED citizens of opposed country? Japan have puny self defence army. They can’t do crap without approval of US. Japanese army or government have not killed one single person over any of territorial matter since WWII ended.

OCS

Correction, Heh…The Japanese Navy actually sunk a North Korean sub and killed its crew during the process when it entered and conducted military operations inside the territorial waters of Japan in 1996. The Japanese SDF will pull that trigger when pushed in a corner, just like anyone would do.

disqusdamnuserid

ignorant fool. Either you are Japanese or you love sushi – either way, you’re wrong.
You know nothing about the Japanese history to say that they are the passive nation as you suggest.

darkrattus

I guess Deng Xiao Ping is wrong about future generation are wiser to solve the problem.
@Fruits : You should counted how many countries is in dispute with china?
@Poorchina: Well, that what happen when you try to be a bully.
@Zafar: you are right. I wonder china ever claim Tibet belong to its since ancient time. So China represent who? Mongolian? Tibetan? Manchuria? Han? I guess in that caase, they can also claim Europe since Mongolia ever conquer part of Europe. Think of that, if i bring back a dinasaur, i can claim the entire planet since dianasaur rule the planet since ancient time.

Fruits

Because China has a lot more neighbours? In relative terms, Japan has disputes with 100% of it’s neighbours. Even in mordern times, Japan still retain that superiority complex. Ask any gaijins (foreigners) in Japan if they think they are an inclusive society. There are still public places and restaurants forbidding everyone other than themselves. Racist much?
And seriously, what are you ranting about Tibet? Tibet is similar to ryukyu kingdom which was annexed/absorbed in ancient times. Anyway, Most countries were made up of tribes and small kingdoms so i don’t what you’re trying to say. A country isn’t defined as a homogeneous ethnic group like USA is not only made up of whites so again i have no idea what you’re babbling about who China represents? Not every country is racist as Japan you know?

Turbo

I have never seen a place exclusive to japanese. I read some books where it says that some izakayas (japanese drink bar) do not welcome foreigners AND japanese that aren’t regulars of that place, but so far I have never met such places.
But when I went to Seoul for 3 months, I was forbidden to enter to LOT of korean bar and girls clubs, with most of them only yelling at me and my friends “only korean only korean”, in one ocassion I asked “why”? and a korean told me that sometimes army guys from the US make a mess, so lot of korean doesn’t like westerners.
and to finish: on one ocassion I was with my korean girlfriend and a 45 years old man spit on my feet because I was with my girlfriend, so we started to saying insults and we fought, the police arrived and it was a mess!!
I found lot of racist people on the 3 months I’ve been in south korea, but in all the years I have been living in japan, just one or two times, and it was “positive racism”, like “excuse him, he can’t read kanjis so he didn’t understand he can’t do that” that kind of stuff.

I’m talking about my own experience, you are talking only by prejuddice and hate you have to japan/japanese people.

OCS

@Turbo – you got it all wrong. You probably have inferiority complex, that is why you think that Koreans and Japanese are racists. It’s not your race that dictates how you get treated, it’s your appearance and your respect to the culture that will give you the respect. US is a huge racist country but it hides it. Those people in the south hate Obama because he’s black. What do you call that? Isn’t that racism? You guys invented racism, and you come to a country in Asia and think that you are superior? – LOL.
I never experienced what you experienced and I have been in both countries. The respect you’re looking for is determined only by two things: No money or lots of money.
You drive around in a Honda Civic and drive arrogant…these people will curse you, or if not, they will beat you half to death. On the other hand, you drive around in a black mercedes and drive arrogant…these people will simply avoid you and respect you…even the cops.
Same goes in the US. If I drive a cheap rental car wearing jeans…the cops are just as rude as what you say, racists. But when I wear a tux and ride in chauffer-driven Lincoln Continental….suddenly, everyone respects you regardless of what color your skin is….especially if you’re with a skinny, tall, model-like blondie… People will simply think you’re a magnate or some kind…and every single person you meet starts respecting you. That is how you combat racism…with MONEY!!!

HoangNguyen

@fruit, you are convinced me that CN has no dispute with her neighbors. Do some simple count my friends, here is what can count so far (it may be more than this): India, Russia, JP, Korea (both North & South), Phil, VN, Malaysia, Thai, Singapore, Bur, Indo, Mongo, Nepal….and of course some weak and small countries such Mayanmar would give up her land to CN without disputed.
OK, so CN can think Tibet or Urgu as parts of CN but would the Tibetian or Urg…are agreed with CN? Remember Tibet or other nations were independent until 50’s when CN was using force to conquer it.
I agree that JP is racist, but that has nothing to do with the debate. You can not say because the JPese are racist so Senkaku is part of CN.

bombkiller007

Fuits. Unfortunately the Tibetans were conquered by a very ruthless military operation and continue to be suppressed by a brutal police state.

OCS

My dear Fruits – US itself is a racist country, particularly down south and central. That’s even worse, it is int he US history that blacks were not allowed to attend college. There are laws that forbid racism…but deep inside those white americans, racism exists. Some old white guy down south hates Obama for crying out loud!! what do you call that? Isn’t that racism?
..so don’t preach about Japan being racists or whatever. They may have this thing about segregating themselves from others, but these people never enslaved the blacks or hispanics.

You don’t really understand the culture and to understand it well, you have to interact with Japanese deep enough that very few foreigners could get in the society. Japanese, in general, have inferiority complex, both in appearance and in mindset. Hence, you see the segregation, but that is not racism.
On the other hand, quite a lot of Americans do not want to mix blood..whites are for whites, blacks are for blacks, latinos for latinas, asians for asians…and the list goes on…with some exception, if the “colored guy” is rich, or has money, or has some talent (sports/artistic), that’s when you see blondes or white girls around them. So, US has racism all over it. Stop whining about Japan being racists… You guys invented racism.

OCS

Deng Xiao Ping is immoral. “There is something immoral about abandoning your judgement” – those were the words of JFK. The common immorality of Chinese leaders were, they couldn’t make a decision (except for Mao who made false decisions that plunged the country into chaos – that includes his wife, the criminal) and so they let their successors make those tough decisions and abandon the problems. That is a very typical Chinese attitude towards problem solving… Let time solve it. It worked in ancient China, but it doesn’t work now. Those people in the Politburo are nothing but a bunch of dinosaurs.
They just pass the ticking time bomb to their successors hoping that it won’t explode while they have it. Same thing they did with Hong Kong. But now, some moron in the Politburo made a mistake…”Who could that be? – Hu could that be?” – All of them simply put band-aid and stop the bleeding but they are not really curing the sickness…it so happen that the bomb is about to explode on Hu’s face..Now, he’s passing the bomb to a new person…who could potentially trip the bomb…
That, my friends, is how Politburo works – consensus, no ultimate judgement or decision..that’s good because you don’t create a dictator..but that also has a downside..nobody will fix the problem, just delay it until the end.

Taiwanese

Why Japan was hated by the Koreans and the Chinese and even some Philippinos? because your local big mouth right wing governor Shintaro Ishihara denied the fact and even suggested that comfort women were not forced and even wanted the victims to provide the proof!

Its tragic to see some Chinese lost their mind to attack their fellow citizens and became the mobs. But don’t forget the majority of the Chinese will find a way to vent their anger somewhere in the near future.

I still remember the news that one Japan local governor challenged his invited Chinese guests directly and saying that Nanking Massacre was a fake.

What a bunch of arrorgant Japanese idiots!

chinese

Yes, Nanking Massacre was a fake. It was made up by your idiot Chinese communist government.

Taiwanese

You keep your filthy mouth shut. Unlike you, I am real Chinese educated in Taiwan Taipei. Nanking Massacre did happen. I strongly suggest you to ask your Taiwanese friend (if you have any) about Taiwanese textbook. Right here you are the fake. If you are the Japanese you are very disgusting!

franklyspeaking

how do u know it is truth? By reading books… LOL

JapHasNoBrain

Short memory, Jap? Didn’t you remember you lost a war and accepted your sentence way back in 40s?
Well, it’s your freedom to be ignorant.

OCS

Hey, Taiwanese…did you know that your beloved leader, Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek partnered with Nazi Germany under Hitler and Chiang Kai Shek’s adopted son was trained and educated in Nazi Germany? What the heck are you talking about Japanese massacre? Your country wanted to partner with the criminal Adolf Hitler. I bet you don’t know this, moron…. Here, get educated and read it for yourself.

Don’t play the “clean” Taiwanese… you guys would partner even with the worst devil just to save your own skin.
The partnership with Hitler lasted until 1941 when the Japanese struck a deal with Hitler.
Taiwanese are difficult to trust. You take sides with butchers too…not your finest hour, isn’t it… That’s reality.

Heh

lol… You sound like a Korean person to be honest. Koreans love to claim they are Taiwanese online when they bash Japan, because they are not happy about good relation between Taiwan-Japan. The Senkaku Island dispute is the only problem between these 2
countries. Most Taiwanese citizens love Japan, same goes with Japanese
people liking Taiwan.
These Koreans will literately do anything to give Japan a bad reputation,
they roam all over internet all day long so they can leave mean comments
about Japan/Japanese on Japan-related topics and news.

Does your government pay well? I hope they do, for all the work you do!

sengleong

@disqus_Ll6pQX5NzU:disqus

You must be a Japanese Far Right. I am an Australian. During the WWII more than 2,000 Australian were captured as prisoner of was and only 6 survive under the Japanese hand in Sandakan. Many have been beheaded by the Japanese soldiers. The Japanese have been committed atrocious act of crime to its many Asian neighbours including Malaysian, Vietnamese and Filipinos, in particular to the Chinese. They have massacre millions of Chinese during WWII. Apparently the Japanese Government tried to hided these war crime from it’s later generation by rewriting History and feed the next generation lies over the years.

me

Let’s not “through stones”. But it would be very interesting to see the Aborigines claiming back they land now ….

Kira

Indeed Japan is not innocent, Japan’s Old empire did terrible things to Chinese people and other countries during WWII but Japan is not the only country that has committed war crimes in the past or present and remember they paid the price with two atomic bombs in their territory with a cost of tens of thousands of civil lives plus many year with radiation that causes cancer and body failure, remember?

More over, each superpower has committed war crimes in the past: experiments, tortures, chemical weapons, civil lives, brute force and so on, japan is just one of many more and people remember this because the republic of China is teaching anger and not history to the kids in the school.

I am pleased that at least you unlike others have acknowledged that Japan did many atrocious deed during the WWII. There is only one issue I have with your comments that is the Republic of China ( Taiwan) did not teach “anger” (as you have noted) to the children nor did the Peoples Republic of China. the children study the History as it was recorded in the WWII. I believe it was the Japanese Government who tried to rewrite history in their text book to their new generation of its citizen by white washing its atrocious act of violent during the WWII thus sheilding its young generation from knowing the truth.
Although Sadam Hussein is a tyrant but I don’t think he did have WMD as what the President Bush used as the reason to go to war. I think it was more likely for the reason of securing of energy resource in Iraq. Look at what happen to Iraq now, it’s a mess. and the war still continue.

OCS

Funny you mentioned that…Nazi Germany’s Hitler killed Jews…the Jews are no longer saying anything…the Soviets have killed their own soldiers during world war II when the can’t face the German army who were superior in armaments. They shot and killed in cold blood those poor russian soldiers.
United States, United Kingdom, and some other member countries of the coalition forces have committed atrocities to Iraqis, Afghans as well….not really their finest hour.

But this thing with the Red Chinese, is just a very poor excuse to control the already deteriorating Communist Government. Every single Chinese Politician, including Hu Jin Tao himself is corrupt. The flow of money in their personal pockets are just so sweet that they can’t afford to stop it.
That’s why they want to use this propaganda to extend that flow of money to their pockets at least a little more longer.
That’s the bottom line……The Chinese government knows that the outside world already know the myth about the Chinese Economic Success….it is “fake”. The Chinese economy is very very fake….and it’s just a matter of time until it gets exposed and a major collapse of the Chinese market would affect not just China but its neighboring countries as well….but, hey, once China’s economy falls, many Chinese states will declare independence, making the current Chinese government weak. Once that happens, the North Korean conflict will be automatically solved…North Korea will collapse by itself…

So it is in the best interest of the western world to see the current Chinese Communist regime fall…because it solves all the problems in Northeast Asia… Korea would be united, Japan retains its Asian leadership…China becomes divided…Republic of Shanghai, Republic of Hong Kong, Democratic Republic of Tibet, etc. would emerge and declare independence….good bye good life….welcome severe poverty particularly to those impoverished states in China……I would love to see that happen….and these Chinese morons will eat humble pie….the worth of Chinese technology would even drop from its current low quality..

OCS

History repeats itself….who knows…perhaps the Japanese government would buy Shanghai and make it as its territory…if that happens, that would be really hilarious.

mYk

Australian with Asian grammar. lmfao

sengleong

@d0e2acdd5bfc427f6191b50ba8259404:disqus

Is that all you can contribute to this article? You are barking up the wrong tree.

OCS

Did all of you know that quite a huge number of Koreans were enlisted in the Japanese Imperial Army during world war II? These Koreans wanted to give Japan a bad reputation, that’s why they did all the looting, raping, killing…and many more. In fact, these Korean agents were there to discredit the Imperial Japanese Forces. Yes, that’s the sad truth. The same goes with some Chinese traitors who joined the Japanese Imperial Army in China to evade death. These Chinese posing as Japanese beheaded tons of Chinese people to inflict bad reputation to Japanese during World War II….History repeats itself…Look at the Chinese rioters. They destroy Chinese property (not Japanese) and beat this poor Chinese guy driving a Japanese car…what kind of stupidity is that? Beating your own countrymen to death simply because they drive a Japanese car? What would you feel if someone in Japan does exactly the same thing? That’s not going to happen….no Chinese-made car will ever make it outside China because of its extremely poor quality. Even the rich people in China don’t drive Chinese-made cars because they are trash and worthless. The only reason China exports is because of labor, nothing more. Chinese technology is probably the worst…it has the lowest value in the market.

Ohio, USA

I am a huge fan of Japan, been there, love it and the people. Having said that… im sure a small bit of this ‘double-agent’ stuff went on, but if you really think the rape of Nanking was done by Koreans or Chinese then you’re delusional. So were the comfort women only for those same Korean and Chinese soldiers? We’re the atrocities building the Burma railroad those same folks too? Even if you could provide some type of evidence that all or even most of the troops involved were not Japanese, how about their commanders? We all know well that the Japanese wouldn’t appoint a foreign commander! Again, i love Japan as a country and people, but flat out refusing to acknowledge the past will get you no where.

prayforjapan

If Japan hasn’t learned from the wrath of God by the tsunami he bestowed on them, then God has other more devastating plans for that country. Japan is the Devils land and who do you think will win in the end? China’s billion man army will destroy Japan. Japan is desperate right now due to their economic crisis. It has the highest suicide rate in the world. It’s got nothing to lose at this point. Japan needs to stop worshipping worthless idols and find Jesus or they are doomed. I pray for all the innocent souls that are caught in the middle of all this bullshit!

prayforyou

Jesus teaches to love, not hate. Your post is just spewing of the devils butthurt hatred, destruction, and racism. Not an ounce of what God nor Jesus would want us to feel. If you are going to quote them, do so without your spiteful madness.

HoangNguyen

With all hatred you wrote, I would not think you were really a CNese. However, if you belief that CN would win then it would be a big miss calculation. In the past, 1890’s CN was much stronger than JP but their navy was destroyed by JP within few hours and then the Russian’s Pacific power fleet also fell the same CN’s fate in the sea battle few years later, even though JP was not very strong at that time.
Bigger GDP & bigger population will not warrant a win. I am not sure what technologies CN currently has, but I have no doubt with JP.
By the way, war is good for no ones.

Heh

>If Japan hasn’t learned from the wrath of God by the tsunami he bestowed
on them, then God has other more devastating plans for that country.
US was hit by Katrina, does that make US devil’s land, and hurricane the “God’s wrath?” lol

>It has the highest suicide rate in the world.
Nope! Not any more. South Korea has higher suicide rate.

OCS

think again, moron. China’s economy is “fake” and has a crisis. Huawei is in the process of getting banned in the US. That itself is a major crisis for China. That earthquake that hit China, that bridge that fell and killed hundreds, don’t you call that wrath of god? LOL…it is…and very soon, the Chinese Bubble will burst….and when the music stops, who gets to sit on the chair….those Politburo guys and their cronies…what happens to those normal citizens who are just followers? – They will be joining the street riots in China along with the illiterates demanding money and compensation from the government. so funny.

http://www.facebook.com/paul.kyl Paul Kyl

USA should have dropped 100 atomic bombs on Japan in 1945.

End of story.

http://twitter.com/incady Andy

Well, maybe China can finish that job now..

Alan

Because china is rising fast…rising to become a very strong country in
the world that no one can ever look down and bully them anymore just
like what they did 100years ago.

A strong China is not imaginable to countries especially the westerns
and Japan. These countries think China must be weak as it was 100 year
ago. The same thinking deep rooted in these peoples mind. Therefore
hatred toward China is just one can easily predicted.

HoangNguyen

I am seeing thing in different angle than as Alan. Alan and most CNese people are blaming other countries, especially the “West” & US, for any conflicting that currently CN has with her neighbors. It would be best if CN had just sit back to revision the root cause and she must keep in mind that JP, Taiwan, South Korea… growth are accepted and welcome by the West or US.
CN thought she is now a supper power thus she has all the rights to command other countries, with this in mind she acts like an arrogance and ignorance. This kind of attitude of CN is very danger to the world as in the past we had seen how the wolrd was gone thru in 2nd world war.
The claim from CN that based on few thousand yrs old history (her history and map was written many times. If anyone doubts about it then just look at the CN new map that she was publishing couple days ago and it is included Senkaku which is part of JP since 17th century and also look at the 9 dot lines which covered the whole West Phil Sea or East Asean Sea, the original map was drew in 50’s by Taiwan thought it had never been accepted by the UN or the world, was a 12 dot-lines but then recently was redrew to 9 dot lines with no explanation) is un accepted by the world. If it was ok then the African might have her right to claim the whole world as they were the first human on earth.
CN blames other small and weak countries such VN or Phil are provocating CN and now comes to JP, the only nation that CN doesn’t touch is Russia. This type of propaganda can only fool the brainwashed CNese. I am wondering which countries will be CN’s next victim: SK or India…?

Chinese

China is not really strong. Still idiot and coward. You’re making better just because US give you jobs. But you are not more than a cheap labor for US

OCS

Not anymore. Top Japanese corporations are pulling out of China. Apple pulled out of China and moved to Vietnam. You will see a domino effect with Western corporations in the next 2 years. When all these foreign corporations leave China, what happens then? BACK TO STONE AGE CHINA. These Chinese rioters will be begging for work and food again…That’s an imminent danger for China.

http://twitter.com/incady Andy

Let’s get this straight – Japan is the one who invaded China and committed unspeakable war crimes. Because of American protection, many of the perpetrators of Japanese war crimes went free, including those in Unit 731. And now, Japanese right wing extremists are trying to white wash their history by revising their textbooks, so future generations of Japanese won’t learn of the crimes of their forefathers. Japan needs to come clean with its past – that’s the only way to improve its relationship with China.

Heh

You must not read any of actual Japanese school’s history text books. That’s what Chinese/Korean government tell their own people through education and media, that “Japanese hide about what they did in WWII in textbooks”. You must know that that’s a lie they tell you. They want their people to hate Japanese so they make up things like that.
In Japanese school text books, they do talk about war crimes in WWII. About the invasion, their aggressive military, everything. Every kid who went to school learn about this, as young as 2nd grade. Many of the school teachers are brain washed left wing, so they even go
exccesive to explain kids about “How evil Japanese were”.
Some politicians might make a statement about Chinese and Koreans exaggerating what Japanese military did (which I do believe is true in some cases), but that doesn’t mean Japanese denies everything about what happened during WWII.

bombkiller007

Andy. Its a common misconception exacerbated by increased propoganda that began under Deng Xiou Peng in the late 70s in order to initially gain political traction after normalization with Japan. The Communist (now arguably fascist) government of China has killed far more of its own citizens in its “social revolutions” than were killed in all conflict areas during WWII.

China is more akin to the Balkans than a monolithic state. There are various national, ethnic, and religious groups that have been put under the boot of the government. Tibet, Xinjian, Lower Mongolia, Kashmir, etc. All of these areas were not part of China and were conquered later. Chinese aggression and brutality is well known. The period after Dr. Sun relinquished power after the short lived democracy threw the remnant of the Empire into chaos. Warlords abounded, there was no government that held legitimate rights (although certain nations would either recognize Mao, Chiang, or another various warlord as legitimate), and it was a constant period of civil war.

Japan has apologized to China. To continue to state that this would solve the problem parallels the calls in the 1930s that we should apologize and give into the “peaceful and reasonable” demands of Herr Hitler due to the horrible atrocities of Versailles and the subsequent starvation of millions of Germans in 1918 – 1919.

China is a fascist, agressive nation that is bullying not only Japan but the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Taiwan, etc. Did the Philippines invade and commit atrocities during the 1930s in China? No. This is not the reason for Chinese aggression. They must aggress or they will fall apart internally. Japanese history plays no part in the real mechanism of Chinese actions except in propaganda.

eve

I must agree .If Japan is to Asia what Germans are to Europa .China is the Soviet Union and see what happened to them when it collapsed.

Chinese

Another poor Taiwanese when he said he is a real Chinese other than Taiwanese as people in Taiwan call themselves. Nanking massacre was made up. You Chinese communist party created a story to provoke a long-standing feud between Japan and China. They also feel ignominious as China is always a loser to Japan. I heard only two Japanese soldiers successfully escorted 5000 Chinese POW. You Chinese got big mouth but actually a coward. The story was made on purpose.

OCS

I don’t know if you guys are ready for the truth. I don’t know if you can handle the truth…but here it is..
Nanking massacre was not made up…it really happened..the question is…who did it!! – As I mentioned earlier, due to the limited strength of the Japanese Imperial Army, having difficulty in getting as much soldiers as possible decided to enlist Koreans and Chinese in the regular Japanese Imperial Army. These people hated Japanese to the bones and they architected and EXECUTED the “Nanking massacre”. Those were not orders coming from the Imperial Headquarters…it came from those renegade generals in the field who wanted to discredit the Imperial Forces. The Japanese Imperial Army could not execute those renegade generals because the entire world will think there had been a coup d etat in Japan…that is why the truth had been buried. But the Chinese and Korean renegade generals who committed these acts were executed discretely.

So you see, I’m not surprised if Chinese could kill their own people…they actually did in the course of many history. They kill their own people to satisfy their motives and intentions…If the evidences can be recovered, this truth will shake the entire foundation of the Chinese and Korean governments…..that’s why, China is actually playing a very dangerous game…the game that can eventually backfire on itself. I don’t know if you call that “stupidity” or “desperate”.

Check history records

The island was under the administration of Taiwan for hundreds of years till just years before Japan annexed Taiwan in 1895. Please check history and historical records. Ryukyu was annexed many years before that, but the islets never belonged to Ryukyu. The islets are on the other side of the huge deep sea gorge away from Ryukyu. The Japanese claim has no merit.

Batulan

And you forgot that Taiwan island was Philippine for thousand of years. It is only Taiwan when CNese migrated and occupied the island 300yrs ago.
Article by Philip Bowring
China’s selective reading of history weakens its South China Sea claims.China’s ethnocentric reading of the past neither bolsters its territorial claims in the South China Sea, nor helps to promote peace with its neighboursThe tendency of the Communist Party government in China, as elsewhere, to rewrite history to reflect changes in personnel or ideology is well known. Less noticed, however, is the tendency to rewrite national history to justify expansionist foreign policies. The recent stand-off between Chinese and Philippine ships is a case in point.The confrontation resulted from Philippine attempts to arrest Chinese vessels fishing in the area of what is known in English as the Scarborough Shoal, to China as Huangyan Island, and to the Philippines as Panatag Shoal. This is a collection of rocks, reefs and lagoons in the South China Sea about 200 kilometres west of Subic Bay, the former US naval base. It is approximately three times that distance to the mainland of China and more than twice that to Taiwan. Thus, it lies clearly within the Philippines’s exclusive economic zone of 200 nautical miles (370 kilometres). Chinese vessels would have a right to fish in its waters if the shoal could be shown to be genuinely Chinese.China’s case as expounded by the Foreign Ministry is one where the only history that matters is Han Chinese. Its claim reads: “It is China who first discovered Huangyan Island” and “drew into China’s map in China’s Yuan dynasty (1271-1368AD)”. This is like Europeans claiming that they got to Australia before the Aboriginals or the Americas before Native Americans.As China in particular should be well aware, 700 years is not very long. Chinese were actually latecomers to navigation beyond coastal waters. For centuries, the masters of the oceans were the Malayo-Polynesian peoples who colonised much of the world, from Taiwan to New Zealand and Hawaii to the south and east, and to Madagascar in the west. Bronze vessels were being traded with Palawan, just south of Scarborough, at the time of Confucius.When Chinese Buddhist pilgrims like Faxian went to Sri Lanka in the 5th century, they went in ships owned and operated by Malay peoples. Ships from what is now the Philippines traded with Funan, a state in what is now southern Vietnam, 1,000 years before the Yuan dynasty. China makes much of the early 15th century expeditions of Zheng He to the Indian Ocean and Africa. But Indonesians had been crossing that ocean at least 1,000 years earlier, settling in Madagascar, the fourth-largest island in the world. Their twin-outrigger ships enabled quite swift passage across the ocean, and the Indonesians also left their mark on the coast of Africa before being supplanted by Indian and then Arab traders.It is absurd to imply that the ancestors of today’s Filipinos were unaware of the Scarborough Shoal, which lay relatively close to their shores and on the route to Vietnam. No one settled there because the rocks are, for practical purposes, uninhabitable. The fact that it was put on a map in 1279 does not make it Chinese any more than Taiwan was Chinese until occupation by and settlement from the mainland some 300 years ago. For the preceding 4,000 years, Taiwan had been the domain of Malay peoples related to today’s Filipinos.China also justifies its claims to Scarborough Shoal by reference to the Treaty of Washington (1900) and the Treaty of Paris (1898) between the old colonial power, Spain, and the new one, the US. It is bizarre to find China, which is so keen to deem colonial-era treaties as “unequal”, resorting to them to make its case. Beijing argues that because there is no mention of Scarborough/Panatag/Huangyan in either treaty, it was not included in Philippine territory.Given the number of islands comprising the Philippines, this is irrelevant. The treaties both refer to the “Philippine archipelago” and by any normal definition of archipelago, Scarborough falls within that, even if it is marginally to the west of longitude 118 degrees east mentioned in the treaties.The weakness of China’s case explains why it is not prepared to discuss overlapping claims with its regional neighbours as a group, and why it will not submit South China Sea issues to international arbitration under the terms of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. In the case of the (never inhabited) Scarborough Shoal, its claims would almost certainly be rejected.The fact that China has a long record of written history does not invalidate other nations’ histories as illustrated by artefacts, language and genetic affinities, the evidence of trade and travel. Indeed, advances in science are uncovering huge areas of unwritten history of people who either had no writing or, as in the case of the Indian-derived scripts found in pre-colonial Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, were written on palm leaves and other materials which decayed long ago.China’s current power may make such issues of actual history irrelevant. But if it wishes to be respected by its Southeast Asian neighbours, and in particular the 400million Malays of the island states (Indonesia, the Philippines, Brunei and east Malaysia), it had better develop some respect for their history. Han sense of superiority may seem justified by the role of overseas Chinese commerce – much helped by Western colonialism – in modern times. But it cannot be assumed to be permanent and is a poor basis for regional peace.In Hong Kong, this sense of superiority is even proclaimed by the government in attitudes to brown Asians, be they Afghanistan’s cricket team or the warning against travel to the Philippines. “Asia’s world city” should feel ashamed.
Philip Bowring is a Hong Kong-based journalist and commentator

bombkiller007

Excellent insight. Thank you for sharing.

sengleong

@ Batulan,

You have taken a short script from Phillip Bowing article and made abig claim to justify your comment. Phillip Bowring did some research but not a comprehensive one. You mentioned about the Malayo-Polynesian people crossing the South China Sea, you also mentioned about the Malayan people owning ships in the 5th Century. yes the Malays do sail but if you go further into your research as to the possible origin of the Malay people and where they came from you might be surprised to find that they came from Hainan Island a territory of China.

OCS

Correction….Sengleong, you have no idea what you’re talking about. The entire Southeast Asian race came from the mixture of Chinese and Indians, hence, they all came from the region of Indo-China, and not just China. You may notice that Malaysia and Indonesia are muslims while Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma are Buddhists..not because of China but from India or then “Industan”. The race is a mixture of Indian and Chinese race over a period of 1,000 to 1,500 years. Philippines is an exception because it was annexed by Spain for 300 years that’s why majority are catholics, but the southern part is mostly muslim.
Going back to your comment about Hainan China…The then Chinese Dynasty had no interest or whatsoever in islands…not even the Mongols wanted islands…China, over the history never really put any interest in islands that is why no claims or were made in the past. If these claims were really valid, why were the claims made now and not right after WWII?
China was so poor that it couldn’t even manage to control mainland, that is why it didn’t even bother to look at the neighboring islands and never made claims. Now that China’s fake economy is fueling some money, China became ambitious…that’s the real score…it’s all about ambition…to be the ultimate power in Asia and to conquer the entire Asian continent…but that’s insanity. China is forgetting that India is there. India will blow them up to kingdom come when they start acting as the sole power in Asia. And not only that, no country in this planet praised Communism/Fascism…so I have no doubt that China would fall on its knees when it starts to expand and control Asia because these “unknown forces” all over the world will not sit down and watch communism succeed. These are the same set of people who exposed the former Soviet Union until they collapsed….the same fate will fall upon China and we are actually seeing it happening now.

At some point, the Chinese Communist Party will collapse. Communism does not work and will never work. It’s just a matter of time until the wise would rise up and say “enough is enough.” Many Chinese people have been out of the country and seeing nice things that the capitalist countries enjoy. The Communist Chinese government is scared of having their own people become intelligent understanding between the truth and the lies, that’s why there is censorship in China precisely for that reason. But it’s a ticking time bomb…and at some point it will explode. The current Chinese Communist Party is using the “Anti-Japanese Sentiment” to control its people…but that’s not going to work for a long time…at some point, those sentiments will subside..and the communists will have no more cards to play. That is why they are using these islands..”this was China, that was China, that was a part of China…and so on.”…. every country has a China town…Imagine China claiming ownership of Chinatowns in every country…is that reasonable to you? Never to me…
Let the Chinese Communist collapse and let’s see what happens….we will see independent states in the mainland region. Those richer states will be independent, the poor states will start complaining and will wage war against other states who are well off…when that happens, where will this “Japanese atrocities” go? out the window…LOL..It’s as simple as that.

sengleong

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sengleong

@ OCS

A little knowledge is a very dangerous thing. You might like to research into your facts prior to post comments and that includes most of your comments made about events surrounding the Jewish people as well as Chinese as well as their history.. Most of your comments carried incorrect facts and harbour negative and aggressive nature.

OCS

LOL….Taiwan did not exist that long. Formosa was never an administrative part of China. It was an empty island, that is where Sun Yat Sen escaped from the Reds and declared a sovereign state when he was overrun by Mao Tse Tung’s forces. Formosa never managed Senkaku islands because it couldn’t even manage it’s own island when attacked by Mao’s forces. Mao didn’t pursue crushing Sun Yat Sen because he had bigger fish to fry and Formosa had no strategic importance to PROC…that is why Taiwan was left to survive to this day…

Clint Eastwood

Whatever reason is Communist China claiming the island is the opposite thing they are saying on the Panatag shoal island that belongs to the Philippines. What about China claim on Tibet? The greedy communist China Government is now prepared to claim all the islands in the name of their stupid historical Emperor that surveys all the islands on the sea. You can never trust a greedy communist Chinese, as one of the great historical example is occupying Tibet by means of force during 1950’s and kill thousands of His Holiness Dalai Lama monks and supporters.

Clint Eastwood

Greedy Communist China, please FREE TIBET country now!!! Stop killing and false imprisonment of peace loving people of Tibet specially Buddhist monk and nuns! Bring back the rule of the law by removing the communist Chinese police and PLA out of Tibet! Support the struggle of the His Holiness Dalai Lama who was force in to exile by the Greedy Communist China. Whatever happens to the country Tibet now is the same thing that this communist Chinese are claiming to all the islands in Asia!!!

http://twitter.com/kurnialim Kurnia Lim

Of course, we will return it, as long as All the fuckin’ white ass return America to those Indian, the real American, not the acted american white ass

bombkiller007

China is not looking for a conflict to release pent up aggression towards Japan. If it was, then where is the pent up aggression to the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Brunei, etc. They are also aggressively bullying these nations over island disputes as well. This is pure aggression from the Chinese fascists, nothing more.

clusterfk

To those retarded people who are citing history long ago, Korea and China need to stop acting like douches to the Japanese in this day and age. Simply put. Sure they did bad things at war times, the whole world knows it. But really, that doesnt justify YOU acting like a arse hole, to a person of a diff. nationality when THEY personally did not do any harm to you.

mixermaster

SENKAKU is a part of Japan
PARACEL is a part of Vietnam
SCARBORO is a part of Philippines
Propaganda is a part of China.
Fake history is a﻿ part of China.
Brainwashing is a part of China.
Island stealing is a part of China.

Muhamad

You do not know the Japanese people themselves, you colonizer nation raping, torturing and killing the people of Indonesia, you just invade us for three years, but the death of our nation that you tortured cruelly. more than deaths from Dutch invaders for 350 years, all of our nation’s wealth robbed you bring to japan, now you want to twist the facts, you need to know that you are one of the emperor’s war criminals escape punishment for the good of America, you are the Japanese nation is descendants of the second world war criminals, go to hell for all japanese people

Muhamad

how you torment us Indonesian people with the belt on an electric pole dried to death, you raped the Indonesian women then you killed, that’s you who claim to be a civilized nation, is that what you are trying to erase the history of Japanese military atrocities, Yasukuni Shrine where war criminals have tarnished your face, you’re still considered a hero?? If you are a civilized nation, destroy the Yasukuni Shrine, gray corpse and grave should you spit and defecate,

Wei J. Pan

The islands dispute will end , after Japan gets nuked. Seems like that is the only language a semi-civilized country like Japan will understand.

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